Re: Latvia refuses to go green: new power station to return the country to dark ages of coal

From: Hatunen (hatuunen_at_cox.net)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 09:28:27 -0800

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:30:34 -0600, "jim blair"
<jeblair@XXXfacstaff.wisc.edu> wrote:

>But IF any bio-mass fuel were to be widely used, land for growing it would
>soon be in competition with food production. I would like to see some
>figures on the land area needed to replace the oil we now burn, as compared
>to what is now devoted to crops. Want to replace the forests and wetlands
>with bio-fuel farms?

And do we really want government farm policy determining our fuel
supply?

Farmers plant crops that seem to be likely to provide them with
the highest income. How do we keep farmers from switching from
bio-ethanol crops to, say, soy beans, should the price of soy
beans rise?

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